FEBRUARY 1, 2014 | BY JC MILLER

 

Whenever possible, I accept invitations to speak about mid-century landscape architecture and the remarkable women and men who were involved with creating it.

This is primarily motivated by personal interest, I think it is great stuff after all, but I’m also hoping to increase general awareness and appreciation for the period and the work that remains. Important projects by major designers of the mid twentieth-century are being lost at an alarming rate, in part because they are not yet as highly valued as other older landscape types.

In October I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the Modern Masters of Landscape Designconference presented by the Library of American Landscape History and hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and more recently I spoke to San Francisco Heritage about the urban designs of Lawrence Halprin that grace that city.